Chris Borland Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.
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Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that there is no proof.
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Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.
